The 2026 Los Angeles elections was held on June 2, 2026. Voters will elect candidates in a nonpartisan primary, with potential runoff elections scheduled for November 3, 2026.[1] Eight of the fifteen seats on the City Council are up for election, as are three of the seven seats in the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education. MayorKaren Bass,[2]city attorneyHydee Feldstein Soto, and city controllerKenneth Mejia ran for re-election.[3]
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The Los Angeles City Controller is the paymaster and chief accounting officer of the city. The incumbent was Kenneth Mejia, who was first elected in 2022 after defeating councilor Paul Koretz. He initially faced opposition from former state senator Isadore Hall III and capital management executive Zach Sokoloff, before Hall withdrew.[4][5] Sokoloff's mother, Sheryl Sokoloff, contributed $7.5 million in independent expenditures to the race, which were spent on television advertisements and mailers attacking Mejia.[6] Despite Sokoloff gaining the endorsement of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, Mejia defeated Sokoloff in the primary, securing a second term as Controller.[7]
The 7th district is located in the northern San Fernando Valley and includes the neighborhoods of Sylmar, Lake View Terrace, Sunland-Tujunga, Pacoima, Arleta and Mission Hills. The incumbent is Monica Rodriguez, who was first elected in 2017 and re-elected in 2022. The Los Angeles Times speculated that she may run for Mayor or City Controller, but she later filed for re-election.[11][10] She ran unopposed in the primary after no one filed a petition to challenge her, and was the only city councilmember to run unopposed in the election.[34]
The 9th district is situated in the South Los Angeles region and encompasses the neighborhoods of Exposition Park, Historic South Central, and the L.A. Live–Los Angeles Convention Center complex within South Park. The incumbent is Curren Price, who was first elected in 2013. He is term-limited and can not seek re-election to office, and has instead endorsed his chief of staff Jose Ugarte to replace him.[35] Ugarte and community organizer Estuardo Mazariegos advanced to the runoff. The district will have its first Latino representative and first non-Black council member in over 63 years, since Edward R. Roybal last represented it.[36]
Ugarte's candidacy has been dogged by allegations that he violated city ethics rules by failing to disclose income he made from lobbying while working in City Hall.[37]
The 13th district is located northwest of Downtown in Central Los Angeles includes the neighborhoods of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park and Atwater Village. The incumbent is Hugo Soto-Martinez, who was first elected in 2022 after defeating incumbent Mitch O'Farrell. He has declared his intention to run for re-election, facing a challenge from Colter Carlisle, the vice president of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council. Carlisle is also Soto-Martinez's upstairs neighbor in their East Hollywood apartment complex, which the Los Angeles Times noted as the first time "that a council member will face off against their upstairs neighbor."[46] Soto-Martinez won outright against Carlisle and two other challengers in the primary.
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Colter Carlisle, vice president of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council[46]
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